Re: Gnome-Kde libraries

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> IMO the best way to have a cross-GUI application that only has two GUI
> targets is to put your real functionality in a library and write two
> GUIs. An abstraction framework only starts to be useful if you are
> writing multiple apps or targetting > 2 GUIs.
> 
> For 2 GUIs the abstraction framework takes far more effort than just
> writing the two frontends separately. 

Not only this, but using a multi-backend toolkit reduces the ammount
of polishing you can do.  This might not be a problem at first, but if
your application evolves and you want to perfect it, you will have to
workaround your toolkit-abstraction to get to the specifics.

Miguel.